June 7 – 9, 2023
Atlanta, GA

Alight Align Arise: Advancing the Movement for Repair  is an unprecedented 3-day national conference produced by Decolonizing Wealth Project, convening key stakeholders across the reparations movement for collaboration, alignment, and healing.

This invite-only event will bring together movement leaders, policymakers, researchers, funders, and civic leaders in Atlanta, GA, to strategize how we accelerate racial healing in America through truth, reconciliation, and repair.

Centering the healing and restoration so desperately needed, we will create space to engage around core goals, principles and priorities within the reparations and redistribution of wealth movement. This is also a time to connect and celebrate the milestones and heroes of the movement, while looking ahead at what the immediate future holds.

Program Highlights

Wednesday

Ta-Nehisi Coates headshot

OPENING DAY w/ TA-NEHISI COATES

We’re kicking off the Conference with a celebration of Black culture. Closing the evening is a special conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of The Case for Reparations.

Thursday

REPARATIONS ECOSYSTEM DEEP DIVE

Day 2 begins with an optional outdoor wellness experience that rolls into a series of panels and community discussions covering various topics impacting the reparations ecosystem. After the full day, we’ll unwind ATL-style with live entertainment, food, and drinks!

Friday

CLOSING DAY w/ NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES

The Conference concludes with Pulitzer Prize Winner, The New York Times Magazine, and Creator of The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones! Before her fireside chat, we’ll have panel conversations about federal policy actions and how media and Hollywood shape the reparations narrative.

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

Here is an non-exhaustive list of our incredible line up of speakers, panelists, and moderators

Dynamic Conversations & Intersectional Connection

  • Media & Hollywood: The Power of Narrative Change in Advancing Reparations

  • Local Reparations Fights Paving the Way to National Victories

  • The Role of Business in the Fight for Reparations

  • Updates on Federal Policy and Legislation

Immersive Digital and Print Experiences

  • Reparations Movement Timeline: Past, Present & Future

  • Share your thoughts on Reparations in the Truth Booth!

Accommodations

Your registration includes two nights at a boutique urban retreat hotel in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. 

For security purposes, full details on lodging will be provided after registration.